Develop

The UK and Europe’s premier developer-focused awards event, the Develop Industry Excellence Awards, returns alongside its conference brother to provide an evening of glitz and glamour celebrating the best of British and European game development talent.

Entering their sixth year, the awards are still the only completely peer-voted event rewarding the achievements of European games developers. For 2008, we've added a brand new award recognising the achievements in the games development and education field, and also a Technical Innovation prize that acknowledges the market's continued advancement in technological competency, be that in tools, design or online.

Elsewhere, the highly contested prizes for best independent developer, best in-house developer, best tools provider and publishing hero are once again up for grabs.

Lobbying is now open for finalists, so if you feel you or a fellow European company are deserving of an award, follow this link to record your nomination. Lobbying closes May 15th, and finalists will be announced in June.